KC Cup: 1st Stage [Sept 2019]

A comment from B4Bear:

Yes, I know. Definitely a play to win type deck. It contains three Neos and three Desperado decks that work nicely together. However, the MVP proved to be the Soul Release card.

Disrupting the graveyard manipulation proved to be a sound strategy 90% of the time. The other bonus was incorporating Ally of Justice card. Proved lethal in mirror matches and was used to summon Desperado.

A comment from Leeroy8138:

The best part about this deck is the amount of disruption in it. CC and TTH disrupt on the opponents turn best, though are still usable on your turn for your own needs. Desperado is battle phase disruption of your opponents turn that needs a TTH or other desperado to be removed. Keep in mind this effect can fail and will do so when you don’t want it.

The only decks that I think this deck has a bad matchup against are fortune ladys and darklords. The former because it can banish your monsters with Fortune Lady Every who is difficult to attack over. The latter having sanctified for your monster effects. These can be dealt with using a well-timed cosmic cyclone and treacherous trap hole, but not having these outs when you need them is painful.

The other weakness is the high number of garnets, with 2 Neos and 2 targets you’d prefer to send with Neos. It’s a necessary evil, and while you’ll end up with some unplayable hands and more sub-optimal ones when the deck goes off, it will go off

A comment from piplup:

How the deck works: the main strategy is to set your blast spider or dekoichi to summon your desperado dragon. Time wizard is used to destroy monsters
Twin barrel dragon is used the same way. Drowning mirror force is used for protection and so is canadia.

A comment from Luxun:

This was hard to accomplish. I've been changing the build from the start. Unfortunately I haven't been lucky with the new box so I had to make some arrangements. I even tried neos but if you use the Fortune Lady Calling you can't use neos fusion, so it's complicated.

So, Cosmic is great against everything, including darklords, banish their spell/trap even as a chain so that they can't use from the grave. It's great to banish the tth your opponent usually starts with.

Chalice stops darklords and desperado, but only use as a chain to their effects, especially with darklord to force them to lose 1000lp. Econ wins games because you easily put 2 monsters on the field so if you steal a boss and attack directly with both you're good. Bending destiny is amazing if you open with it and synchro Every.

A comment from 找到面了:

Pretty much the same build as my KOG deck this month. Replaced Canadians with Drowning Mirror Force because there are too any cyber dark Desperado decks. Using Canadians on cyber dark Edge is not good with Fortune Lady Every’s effect. Drowning Mirror Force can safely remove Cyber Dark Edge and EH Brave Neos.

As to the extra deck, I removed dolphin and one FL Every and added an HTS Psyhemuth and an Arcanite Magician. Psyhemuth is great in the mirror match and against AG or Desperado.

A comment from Revolver007:

The deck can actually beat any meta deck as long as you have the right cards and play.

• Use Mythic depths skill to use Sea stealth attack's effect.
• Use Sea stealth attack to destroy monsters that are difficult to destroy via battle, also can be used to avoid your water monsters for targeting card effect by your opponent
• The actual play is on 1st turn, set Abysslinde or abyss sphere to summon Linde on opponent's turn, let it be destroyed via its effect on opponents turn, either summon Abysspike discard Marksman or Heavy infantry (depends on field setup by opponent) then add the Fishborg archer to synchro summon Gungnir or Blackrose (again depends on field setup) on your turn or just special summon Abyssleed for beatdown via Abysslinde effect.
• The deck is also capable of OTK via Abyssmegalo and summoning any water monster in attack position for Megalo's effect for a double attack.
• Salvage to recycle Atlanteans to use their effect again
• Just abuse Atlanteans effect to get rid of your opponent's card

A comment from Carlenchu:

Try to use your atlanteans wisely against six sams and desperados.
Also if you are out of atlanteans try to get black rose dragon or Vermillion to the field to eliminate some cards.

A comment from Sielynas:

My name is Sielynas and I was able to complete the KC Cup Stage 1 successfully using a Mermail Deck (Non-Synchro).

There are a few tips to playing this deck. You always want to use the trap card Abyss-Sphere to summon Mermail Abysslinde in response to your opponents attacks or battle phase. Using it for this will allow her to either self-destruct at end of their turn, or allow her to soak a hit. Upon hitting the graveyard, utilize her effect to summon Mermail Abyssmegalo. This is your heavy hitter. Getting him on the field plus one monster will allow him to attack twice by using his ability. Note that when you use his ability it counts as discarding your creatures to the graveyard. So, using him and sacrificing an Atlantean will either destroy a face up (or face down depending on which one you sacrifice) card and also allow him to attack twice. This will allow you to clear a path to get him to swing directly.

If you have him in your opening hand, plus any removal, I recommend waiting until next turn if going first, and then special summoning him to utilize the removal effects. This is why I have Drowning Mirror Force in the Deck.

3 of the monsters in this deck have effects that discard cards directly to the graveyard from your hand and activate their other effects (they also special summon themselves from it). Use this to destroy their board while building your own.

Finally, putting Abyss-Scale on Mermail Abyssmegalo pretty much guarantees a win as it stops most traps from activating. Swing with it twice for easy OTK.

A comment from YTAndal:

Metaphys Daedalus and Metaphys Dimension are the MVPs.

A comment from Redpe:

Just reached KC level 20 with Yubel Nephthys. Still competitive.
Weak against all of the banishment deck (Darklord, Subterror, etc)
Since they all know how to get rid of Yubel, Limited reverse will easily reborn your Yubel again next turn.
Those traps is good to easily summon the Pheonix and destroy opponent trap next turn.

A comment from Akashiro:

Just here to show that Yubel never dies! Each pack it gets hard but I think its good to let people know that it still competitive. Had to wait until most of the consistent Desperados, Darklords, Subterror and Cyberdark Neos/Red Eyes decks leave but still possible.

I put a Cosmic Cyclone cause sometimes you need to clean things like World Legacy from the field even before Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys get there.

A comment from Spiido:

Medraut: Ideal for coming in the starting hand along with a Noble Arms to call Drystan or Borz.

Drystan: Suitable for destroying an opponent's aggressive cards or being used as a defense.

Borz: Mill the deck to gain access to other Noble Arms, especially Gwenhwyfar.

Gwenhwyfar: This card should be used wisely to surprise the opponent. Equipped with Medraut and Borz along with Destiny will cause the monster to have up to "3 lives" to destroy, along with the Dark effect applied to these monsters. In Drystan is ideal to avoid TTH (Light effect) if it does not have with Destiny or can be used in the graveyard and hand to activate the effect of destruction of this Noble Knight.

Arfeudutyr: Handle backroll and can be used to equip enemy monsters to fulfill this purpose and reduce enemy strength.

Destiny: Needless to say, a good defense.

Neos Fusio... Next.

Bacon Sav... Skip.

Lava Golem: A possible counter against Darklord.

And finally the skill: Since the game has evolved to the point of the graveyard has become an important feature, Ishizu's skill can break any possibility of using it. And now with this meta shaped by the Darklords maybe during and after the KC Cup will be used a lot.

A comment from Silent Queen:

Oh my! This one is tougher than the regular KOG match! Once again, I need to adapt my Silent Swordsman deck to deal with the increased usage of Dark Lords.

The key is to set Shadow-imprisoning Mirror ASAP and even if you can’t, you can still fight by disrupting their spells (namely Darklord Contact) and use traps like Wall of Destruction to stop the swarming)

Be mindful that Sanctified Darklord can negate both your Silent Swordsman and Destiny HERO Decider passive effects.

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